Senator blasts FCC for refusing to provide DDoS analysis
FCC is either too secretive or is unprepared for future attacks, senator says.
By Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, July 21, 2017
US Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) criticized the Federal Communications Commission for failing to turn over its internal analysis of the DDoS attacks that hit the FCC's public comment system.
The FCC declined to provide its analysis of the attacks to Gizmodo, which had filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for a copy of all records related to the FCC analysis "that concluded a DDoS attack had taken place." The FCC declined the request, saying that its initial analysis on the day of the attack "did not result in written documentation.
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